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I don’t think the article is about “serverless” - it’s more about various BPM, RPA and similar tools and technologies that tend to popup with snake oil type mar

• ElFitz 7y ago
  Serverless is to sysadmins what codeless is to web developers (front and / or back). Or serverless is to those same web developers what codeless is to business people. Edit: also, this is an analogy
  • sheeshkebab 7y ago
    Yes, analogy is similar, the gap though is much larger (even though it’s barely noticeable). I guess eventually a new gen of Excel comes out that can write code without IF, FOR loops, and function calls, but until then it’s safe to say anything writing those statements other than in code is pretty much snake oil.
    • ElFitz 7y ago
      Oh, I definitely agree with you here. If it were just as "easy", AWS, GCP or Azure would have done it by now.
    • cosmodisk 7y ago
      The problem is that IF ELSE statement or even calling some functions is easy, however most people are shit scared of it.A person of very average intelligence can do it,but most people will never dare even to try,hence the popularity of all sorts of drag&drop. Another problem is that if one isn't a developer,it is close to impossible to estimate how difficult the task could be. For instance, querying 1000 records in the database is easy but doing the same for millions of records doesn't translate into "oh, let's just do it a few more times".